Prince and his purple piano inspired this new Pantone Color

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Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/08/15/prince-and-his-purple-piano-in.html

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Cashing in on Prince to sell a color? Waaaaait is this the same guy who patented black?

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I love Prince and I LOVE purple, but how the hell am I supposed to call out this color on my proof sheets? I’ll have to get a special font for his symbol.

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He was the only guy from the 1989 Batman movie who could rock a purple suit better than the Joker.

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The color formerly known as purple, of course!

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Well, in all seriousness…

This official shade – named “Love Symbol #2”

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I know… I saw that too. I guess it’s like Reflex Blue, it has a name, not a number.

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It’s like the opposite of Patrick McGoohan.

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I do appreciate Pantone naming a color after Prince, but considering they’re in the business of making money off their colors it does feel less than genuine to me.

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It appears to be the same color that our library was painted, nearly twenty years ago. It took the paint-mixer three tries to get it right.

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And it’s Number Two!

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I don’t get this joke. I am sure it is very funny, though :wink:

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Be seeing you!

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He’s a secret agent, man.

They’ve given him a number and taken away his name.

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“Questions are a burden upon others.”

BTW, the other day I bought the 2009 remake… watched the first episode and was done with it, at least for now.
Might give it another try later - sometimes you just pick the wrong day, you know what I mean.
But so far the only bit I really liked were the vintage cars.

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I never even heard of that remake. Hard to imagine it could stand up to the original.

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It doesn’t. Mostly because it’s deceidedly undeceided between “let’s keep close to the original” and “let’s do something entirely new altogether”, so it doesn’t go anywhere, I think.

You know your project is in trouble when even Gandalf and Jesus can’t get it off the ground.

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One thing that purple presumably isn’t, is the shade of purple of his piano - right? The piano would have been painted in a paint shade then already commercially available.

Or does commercial availability of a paint not imply the existence of a Pantone colour?

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Prince and his Purple Piano

Sounds like a musical spinoff adaptation of Harold

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I’m more of a RAL guy myself.